I'm looking for the name of a state agency that spends a million dollars a week performing no useful service to the great mass of the taxpayers who fund the agency.

Hint: This agency employs 300 people.

Hint: Our governor promised to stop borrowing money without voter approval to fund this agency. Upon taking office, he promptly broke that promise.

Bonus points if you can name the Republican governor who first set up this agency.

AND THE ANSWER IS: The Schools Development Authority! Something is positively weird when the Trenton crowd talks about big cutbacks to save a million bucks here or there when they're squandering a million a week on this do-nothing agency.

Crunch time's coing soon. Next month the SDA is supposed to announce how much more will be spent building schools in the Abbott districts. The answer should be: Zero. The original court order called for spending $6 billion in the Abbotts. And $6 billion has been spent. Case closed.

But the Trenton crowd is calling for spending as much as $14 billion more on bulding schools in these districts. Christie already borrowed more than $750 million without voter approval to keep the SDA alive. Will he cave in once again?

All I can say is, as of next month you won't need one of those TSA scanners to determine whether the governor's got a set of gonads.

ALSO: Here's a column I did on that recent hearing in Trenton on the plans to borrow billions and billions more. Everyone at that hearing seemed to assume the governor will go along with plans to borrow the money. We shall see.

And by the way, just in the short time this post was up the SDA blew through about $100,000. Meanwhile they are building only a handful of schools, all of which could have been built without them.